Only once did life put me in an F-16, an hour of bliss. “Watch your six” was the watch word, in dogfights over Texas. That is how aviators – back to WWI – say “watch out.” Your six is behind you, twelve your nose, nine left, three right. America just won big, will control the skies of Congress after January 3. Thank God, but this is the “danger zone.” Until then, “watch your six.”
What do you mean? I mean, mandate or no mandate, retirements and losses notwithstanding, Democrats still control Congress, only relinquish power on January 3rd. Between now and then, Democrats control both chambers and the White House. Those reckless with power, may use it.
What could they do – what should we be watching for? Seven possibilities.
First, in 2021, the Biden Administration commissioned a “study” to assess whether to “pack the US Supreme Court” with left-leaning justices. The liberal press reported, in December 2021, that the group “refused to take a stand.”
Ask yourself, since when does a president “commission a study” on whether to cheat or not cheat, whether to tip the balance of nine justices – number since 1869 – in favor of his leftist political agenda, or to allow “rule of law” to be administered fairly and non-politically?
Answer: Never. No president – except FDR, who hated the idea of a Supreme Court opposing “New Deal” legislation – has ever tried to turn the Supreme Court political. Until now.
Interestingly, FDR’s ploy in 1937 was to say justices get too old to serve, so should be age-limited out. It backfired, causing him to fear declaring war – until Pearl Harbor. Congress bolted.
Today, a new pitch is made saying justices should be age limited. But that is not really the point. Liberal Ruth Bader Ginsburg died at 87, opposing age limits and court-packing. Biden himself is almost 80, daily makes a strong argument for age-limiting presidents.
All this is a Democrat foil, bunch of chaff. Like so much else, Democrats are lying about motivations. They just do not want their leftist agenda struck down. They want new rules.
Could they get them? Yes. Will they? As with all else in Biden’s world, that will be a political calculation. If they think they can get away with it, arguing Dobbs needs correction, the 2nd Amendment needs ending, Court is too judicially conservative, maybe.
The danger is real, as they could end the filibuster, throwing another tradition on their bonfire of political vanities, finally killing Supreme Court legitimacy, making all things political.
Second, Democrats could ram a final Fiscal 2023 bill into law, where we now have a continuing resolution – in effect, a placeholder. What could that do? Kill oil, gas, coal, and the American consumer, elevate spending, inflation, interest rates, and taxes, accelerate recession, blame Republicans in 2024, push leftists priorities.
Third, they could declare a national climate emergency, since temperatures are unseasonably high, and there are reports of tornados, hurricanes, floods, droughts, thunderstorms, even rain. The climate emergency would trigger executive action, banning gas cars (pushed by blue states), shutting down oil, gas, and coal production (which Biden wants), killing fossil fuel jobs, and capping cow belching and farts (no kidding).
Fourth, loan forgiveness on steroids could be coming. To put pressure on Republicans to undo the damage prior to 2024, Democrats may expand loan forgiveness, arguing COVID, climate, inflation, and Trump’s policies require more loans become a federal (taxpayer) liability.
These could go beyond student loans, already a constitutional nightmare, to include forgiveness of loans on cars and mortgages for the “poor,” sex change surgery (already for military), abortions (requiring change of the Hyde Amendment), hurricane insurance for minorities (who Harris says should be helped first), and a long list.
Fifth, one-time bailouts could be in store, for example making all blue state “public pensions” – many underwater for poor management, overpromising, loss of tax base, leftist policies – a federal responsibility, offering onetime payments to states that restrict 2nd Amendment rights, legalize drugs, end bail, or push the leftist anti-police, anti-detention “equity” agenda. A raft of generally unconstitutional authorizing legislation could be considered.
Sixth, to protect leftist leaders and national teachers’ unions – which tip left – the idea of a “COVID lockdown amnesty” could be enacted, disenfranchising those harmed by lockdowns.
Seventh, a mass criminal amnesty – for drug offenders, illegal aliens, leftist rioters, and longtime Democrat political supporters – could be initiated, advancing the presidential pardon idea by making it legislative. Again, watch for a run at the filibuster.
In the end, many of these ideas would create blowback, but then so have leftist ideas to date, ironically validating a strong right-leaning response, seen this week. These ideas are possible.
Point is simple: To win, we have to land this plane, see a Republican majority taking the oath, taking back Congress. Between now and then, we have some rough air, so “Watch your six!”
OUR ONCE GRA 8 NATION IS NOW TOAST AND THE libs AND THE press DESTROYED IT IN ONLY 2 YEARS. EVIDENTLY, lib VOTERS ENJOY PAYING INCREASED GAS PRICES AND DOUBLE AND TRIPLE FOOD PRICES-ALL ILLOGICAL
Well of course the Democrats always lie about the real motivations behind their actions. If you told someone straight on that your goal was to dismantle the republic and replace it with your typical socialist regrime in order to ensure unilateral power over the masses, I don’t think most people would clamor to that cause. So they have to invent rationalizations that appear to justify their stated objectives in a way that doesn’t invite close scrutiny of their real motivations. FDR did that regularly during his 4 terms in office.
Everything was “justified” by a pressing need to “help the people”, which of course was the farthest thing from the truth at the time. Progressives of that time saw the Great Depression as a golden opportunity to re-make, transform and expand the role and power of the federal government well beyond anything it was originally designed to be by our Founders. They did everything in the power to undermine our recovery from it several times by enacting either new laws or regulations, interest rate hikes or new taxes to stuff out any signs of a recovering national economy. The longer the nation’s pain could be prolonged, the more changes the Progressives could make. Which of course just kept inching them closer and closer to achieving their ultimate goal. So of course FDR and his people wanted to sweep aside any opposition to their plans, whenever possible. Trying to pack the Supreme Court, in order to eliminate it as a point of opposition, was perfectly in-line with the many other changes the Progressives of the era wanted to implement or actually did implement while they held power.
The people running Biden behind the scenes today are essentially trying to do the exact same things today for the exact same reasons. Removing all opposing political opposition to the wholesale transformation of the country into what modern Progressives (America’s Socialists / Communists) dream will be a socialist Utopia that is part of the larger One World Order espoused by the WEF crowd. Many of the arguments being put forth by Biden and his team are actually quite similar to the justifications used by FDR and his people back in the day.
The difference today is the Democrats have a somewhat added advantage of a more ignorant American public brought about by decades of substandard public education and political indoctrination via our schools. Today most people have little to no real knowledge of our history, so they cannot see the obvious similarities between what Progressives under FDR did and tried to do and today’s Progressives under Team Biden. Half the American public today prefers what they think socialism is, although they truly don’t understand what it really delivers. The proof of which is they can’t connect the dots between the last dismal 22 months we’ve endured, since Biden and the Democrats began ramming their policies through, and the resulting negative impacts they have inflicted on the country and our relations around the world.
The latest evidence of that is none other than the results of yesterday’s elections at the Congressional level. Even though the Democrats have inflicted great damage into the country, at least half the American people still opted to vote Democrat. That is very telling. That means it is pretty clear that the American people need to suffer substantially more pain and misery before the half that still clings to the lies of the Democrat party are potentially willing to consider any other alternative. The problem with that is of course the farther we proceed down this self-destructive path towards becoming a socialist democracy, the harder it will be to ever recover some semblance of our republic from the ruins. So I agree with you that we always have to watch our six as yesterday’s elections will only serve to embolden the Progressives to push even harder to achieve their goals.
We may have the House & screw the Dems OK, maybe Senate
You are now leaving the constitutional republic and entering the communist police state. Watch your six? Lost that in 2020.
One thing is for DAMN sure the next 2 years are going to be much worse for our REPUBLIC than the first 2 ,, GOD help us all
Jackass Joe IS THE BEST EXAMPLE of the VERY WORST the so-called Democratic Party HAS BECOME! . . . I can’t believe that so many people could be so stupid to accept anything this Jackass has to say or offer. It just reaffirms that the majority of average Americans are so stupid and gullible to “trust” anything these American Communists preach. I really do fear for our country’s future and Freedoms! . . . But as long as I breathe, I will fight to uphold our national heritage to my last day existence!
WELCOME TO THE FOURTH REICH
It’s about time this happened we need to get rid of all this left nut jobs and take our country back
For the Republican Party to move forward we need DeSantis. Trump needs to get out of the way. He did some very good things but we must move on. DeSantis gives us a great hope for 2024.
Where do I begin with my disappointment with the results of the Election, well whoopie they won the House, but by a far smaller margin than expected. Someone send, the RNC a box of bright Red Lipstick. They are going to need it with all the pigs that got created as a result of the Election. What was predicted to be a Red Wave, a Tsunami turned out to be nothing short of a ripple on a Small Duck Pond the house, should have been by a lot bigger Margin. The problem is with both the House and the Senate races, President Donald Trump taught the Republicans how to fight back and they went stupid over that last Two Years, that’s because they lack leadership Let’s look at the Senate, led by the most incompetent leader they have had in my lifetime Mitch McConnell, He spent millions on Defending Hatchet Face Lisa Murkowski and she will lose thank God to the chosen Republican candidate by Alaska some of that money could have been better spent on some of the closer races and what will the republicans do, win or lose the Senate he will still be reelected as the Republicans in the Senate, I am giving thought to Registering and an Independent at least that way they won’t hound me for money I don’t have.
Here is my take, with the coruption that’s going on in the Democrat party and the Biden Crime Family, inflation, the Border, the Energy Crisis, The Foreign Policy, The Education System, we should have been able to get a 4 or 5 set Majority and now we will be lucky to have a one set Majority. That’s a disgrace and no one should be rewarded for that.
We lessoned to the Democrats harp on the Republicans will distroy democracy, and not one time my Kavin McCarthy, Mitch McConnell, not the RNC, not the Candidates did i hear them respond with, lets follow the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and the Rule of Law. Show examples of people being arrested for Speaking up at School Board Meetings.
I was elected four times to public office and would have never stood for this level on Incompetence in my campaign.
Friends as I look forward the 2024 election with or without President Trump, i see a massacre in the making because if you can’t win in this environment, how do you win.
Do not put Kevin McCarthy in as House Marity Leader, Do Not put Mitch McConnell in as Senate Majority or Minority in the Senate and get Rona Romney Mcdanial’s out of the RNC leadership spot she lost the 2020 election and now the 2022 election and will lose the 2024 election
Don’t keep doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result, that’s insanity!
Congres will not impeach him. Maby somebody will blow him away. Kyle L.
OUR ONCE GRA 8 NATION IS NOW TOAST AND THE libs AND THE press DESTROYED IT IN ONLY 2 YEARS. EVIDENTLY, lib VOTERS ENJOY PAYING INCREASED GAS PRICES AND DOUBLE AND TRIPLE FOOD PRICES-ALL ILLOGICAL…..
I really liked this reply therein I copied it as an intro to my reply…
I too have questioned and attempted to ascertain from light conversations I have from time to time with the LEFT LEANERS… of whom I cross paths with in daily life, WHY DO THEY ENJOY SUCH SELF INFLICTED INJURY AND PAIN. The prices of everything from popsicles to Coffee to Gas and Drugs at all levels have gone through the roofs. Everything has a new gas surcharge to it when you ship something the cost of everything has been inflated to recover the fuel prices. OK great the Pandemic caused a short term price decrease which is totally understandable. People stayed home, workers stayed home, the highways were desolate at 2:AM for months. But the aftermath of recovery in the energy sector is ongoing now as if the world of OIL and energy production has been virtually stopped in its tracks. I WILL NEVER FORGET BRANDON’s COMMENT “( WE ARE GOING TO DESTROY THE PLASTICS INDUSTRY UNDER MY LEADERSHIP ) ” It hasn’t happend but the cost of everything has gone up because of the price of oil. as we all know plastic is a derivative of petroleum. Yes it is recyclable, but who do you reverse 50 years of industrial and commercial use of a substance that has become part of other worlds life style. 75% of the items found in and emergency room are made from plastic. Same with cars and Homes and etc. etc.
NOW A SIDE BAR POINT… most do not know this !!!!!!!!!!
I study the energy sectors of the world, around the globe ongoing daily. The reports I saw pre-Pandemic said and I quote” CHINA IS BUYING, LEASING AND ACQUIRING AT EVERY LEVEL ALL THE OIL TANKERS FROM ACROSS THE WORLD THAT IT CAN GET IT’S HANDS ON AND FILLING THEM WITH CHAEP OIL” Cheap oil then PRE-PANDEMIC was 46.00 a barrel + -. CHINA HAS THEM PARKED AT PORTS ALL OVER THE CHINA CONTINENT< SHORES. They have never done that before in history. This was a strategic move and now with oil well over 100 USD per Barrel, we can see why. They refine their oil and up charge anyone who comes to purchase the by products. PLUS it enhances their economy to have this strategic reserve. All this and more are 100 % available in the records of who leases and owns the huge oil tankers. Just like rail cars are tracked worldwide to insure they are accounted for, primarily by the people who own and lease the railcars. China did this in a slow handed move over a period of 4 years, as they did the same with all independent GOLD MINING operations worldwide. They have the title to most all of the active GOLD MINES NOW, while we fiddled Rome BURNED. I have no doubt that the Dragon has awakened and is being fueled for an extended long life by the Communist Regime. As one U.S. General recently stated ” WE CAN MATCH THEM BUT FOR HOW LONG” we are not that deep. China can put up a 300 million man Army in 30 days. And Support that Army as they move. The new China Air craft Carriers are 10x as efficient and powerful as any we have now and can carry 2x the aircraft and missiles. But who needs Aircraft when you have covert Subs sitting in every Free world Ocean port. The term WAKEUP AMERICA is now so lost on our leaders that it sounds cliche. I do not have an answer,,, WAKE UP WORLD,,,, we just dodged a bullet when the COVID – 19 Virus was unleased on the world, what more will it take to confront the CCR?
The Demoncraps will ram through the change to eliminate our first and second amendments and alter the Constitution to prevent a second party from even existing…I also blame Republicans who just sat back yesterday and were complacent that everything would be fine..you are staring down the barrel of the end of the greatest country that ever existed on earth…
Heck…I’m still not sure that the “R”s are going to reclaim the majority in congress, at least in both chambers. We have to take 3 of 4 undecided senate seats. Even if they do, with a dim in the WH, it’s a stalemate. Stopping further damage is the best we can hope for. biden will surely be letting EOs rip, per his puppet masters commands. Furthermore, the belief in “free and fair” elections is dead and buried. The massive negativity surrounding the dims’ agenda (most especially, the economy and crime) should have led to a FAR better outcome than this election yielded. We’re not going to be able to stop “watching our six”…even after Jan. 3, 2023. That’s just a sad reality in this dumpster fire we call the current…rigged…Western World.
I think for future elections…BAN the campaign ads. They are filled with misinformation and meant to distort the truth. We can thank big money for their contributions that paid for these smear ads. The only thing that should be allowed are the live debates and forget about the Media assessing the candidates. The public has brainwashed again.
I have no doubt the demoncrats will punish us. However, when the new Congress is sworn in, they need to see just what was done and if it was constitutional. If not, go after their sorry hides. It can work both ways but the Republicans have got to have a stiff backbone.
IF we had truly honest elections where fraudulent votes were impossible to cast the Democrats would be in far worse shape I believe. They have opposed every single attempt to make our elections ethical and honest, and the potential for fraud gets worse every election. Did that contribute to yesterday’s disappointing result? I don’t know and can’t say except that it may have. To the left, the ends justify the means and they will lie, cheat, and steal to get their way. Ethical people do not, but we are raising a lot of very unethical, immoral, and dishonest people these days.
More voting machine “glitches” in Democrat-controlled precincts! Just like the “hanging chads” in DIMM areas in FL in 2000. Who knows if the paper ballots were ever fed through the machine!
We have got to have ballots traceable back to the voter via a globally unique ballot ID or similar. Maintaining a completely anonymized, secret ballot allows for all manner of cheating. All they have to do is find one of many ways to slip extra ballots “into the pile” and it doesn’t matter if the fraud is later revealed, by then it’s too late — how are you going to pick the bad ballots out of a pile of hundreds of thousands or millions of valid ballots when there’s no ID or serial on the ballots and they are completely anonymized?
Well you may think we can watermark the ballots or secretly add a lot# or something, and that may help, but it won’t stop crooked poll workers who may have access to the storeroom with cases and cases of pristine “official” ballots, from marking a bunch of them up and mixing them into the pile. And once they are in the pile, we’re back to the problem — no way to separate the completely anonymized bad ballots from the good ones.
I don’t know the best way to fix it, but I do know that we need to have some way of tracing an individual ballot all the way back to an individual voter. I wouldn’t personally object to wet-ink signing my ballot. Hell, I’d even add my home address, email and phone, but that is likely “a bridge too far” for others. We need to get over that. Criminalize voting retaliation or something like that, if you are scared of such from an employer or whatever.
Of course , no one is doing a thing about it . To ask Republicans to get some stones is to much . They don’t want to upset the black and brown vote . Let’s stop worrying about getting 3 to 6 percent of their vote . They are as racist as whitey. Where has limited campaign donations gone ?? Some Democrats are spending 4 to 5 to one for Republicans time to put the brakes on Zuckerpuss. Everybody remembers cow pie smelling AL gore don’t we . Everybody in their gas cars drive out of the blue states take your company’s, your tax dollars and let the nutjobs figure it out .
WATCH EVERYTHING FASCIST LIBERALS DO. STOP ANY MOVE THEY MAKE IN BOTH Congress and Senate.
REMEMBER, THEY ARE 2 YEAR OLDS AND WILL ACT AS SUCH.
STAY VIGILANT.
Our country is so divided I do not see anything ever getting done. Socialist government run and controlled by democrats will give away all they can to keep Washington. Our country is lost unless people start fighting and not give in to free money
Knowing Biden, he will want to forgive car loans and house loans based on color of someone’s skin and sexual identity. That seems to be very important to the Biden administration. Remember Kamala saying that hurricane relief should prioritize black and brown people first? Biden is a crook, always has been and always will be.
First of all it really amazes me how out of touch with reality voters are .”joey mumbles”IS a democRAT and a total threat to AMERICA,yet people voted for democRATS and that shows that they accept his agenda.Where in the hell is your common sense and your commitment to saving AMERICA.
70% of people think that the country is going in the wrong direction, but they won’t do anyting to turn the car around? Our vote is our voice. Too many are silent.
Too many people in the wagon and fewer and fewer pulling it. Without drastic change or a genuine crisis (not what Democraps are continually calling crises) such as military attack, a true famine, or some National calamity, it is unlikely to happen. As long as about half of our population can sit at home, never work, and collect a check from those who do, nothing will change. Once people with “no skin in the game” were allowed to vote, the eventual end of America was assured.
I disagree with the statement that no president except FDR and the current idiot-in-chief have tried to make the SCOTUS political. Every Democrat who nominated people to the high court has nominated people who are highly political themselves, and in so doing have tried to turn the court into a political tool. And Obama even went so far as to murder a SCOTUS justice to open up a seat so he could fill it with a political tool.
Todays Dim strategy is to prevent the full counting of this weeks vote until the day before the 2024 election when the final results will be announced. The repub house count will never get to 218.
This count has been held to 208 for the past 24 hours.
Lol, you get the government you deserve! Sad, but true. I’ve been in this fight for 41 yrs and have only seen us win twice, Reagan and Trump!
Do not fear these tyrants. They may make things bad for a while but their over confidence will destroy them. Just wait and see.